Crews are watching the weather as they battle a California wildfire that has burned into groves of gigantic sequoia trees. The National Weather Service has issued a weather watch for dry, windy conditions in the Sequoia National Park in Sierra Nevada.
Sequoia trees stand in Lost Grove along Generals Highway as the KNP Complex Fire burns about 15 miles away on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, in Sequoia National Park, Calif.
The General Sherman Tree is the largest in the world by volume, at 52,508 cubic feet , according to the National Park Service. It towers 275 feet high and has a circumference of 103 feet at ground level.The Colony Fire is one of two lightning-caused blazes, known together as the KNP Complex, that have burned about 18 square miles of forest land.
However, fire officials weren’t expecting the kinds of explosive wind-driven growth that in recent months turned Sierra Nevada blazes into monsters that devoured hundreds of homes. The fires already have burned into several groves containing trees as tall as 200 feet feet tall and 2,000 years old. They include Oriole Lake Grove in the national park and Peyrone North and South groves in the neighboring Sequoia National Forest.
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